Gymnodinium aureolum
Diagnosis
Diagnose_Genus: Gymnodinium F. Stein emend. G. Hansen & Moestrup: Unarmoured unicellular or colony-forming dinoflagellates with horseshoe-shaped apical groove running in an anticlockwise direction. Nuclear envelope with vesicular chambers. Cingulum displacement one or more cingulum widths. Nuclear or dorsal fibrous connective present.
Type species
The type species (lectotype) of the genus Gymnodinium is Gymnodinium fuscum (Ehrenberg) Stein.
Type illustration / Type locality / Type specimen
Type locality: USA: Massachusetts: Great Pond, Barnstable County
Ecology
Substrate: planktonic
Sociability: solitary
Salinity: marine
Salinity: variable (estuary)
pH: neutral
Life cycle
Phases_alternance: haplontic
Generation: <1 month
Reproduction_mode: asexual_binary
Feeding behaviour
Mode of locomotion
Attached phylogeny
Observation site(s)
SYMBIONTS
Association with... | Region origin | Name of site | In reference... |
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Parvilucifera infectans | Penzé estuary | “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014. | ,|
Parvilucifera infectans | Rance estuary | “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014. | ,|
Parvilucifera rostrata | Penzé estuary | “Parvilucifera rostrata sp. nov. (Perkinsozoa), a Novel Parasitoid that Infects Planktonic Dinoflagellates”, Protist, vol. 165, no. 1, pp. 31 - 49, 2014. | ,